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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesFast and rapid - (at) full speed/tilt/peltidiom
- apace
- as fast asyourlegs would carryyouidiom
- as ifit isgoing out of styleidiom
- at a rate of knotsidiom
- fleet
- hypersonic
- in the twinkling of an eyeidiom
- Jack Robinson
- lightning
- like a shotidiom
- like a streak of lightningidiom
- prompt
- souped-up
- spread like wildfireidiom
- streak
- super-express
- superfast
- swift
- wildfire
See more results » (Definition oflickety-splitfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesoflickety-splitlickety-split We would take that in alickety-splitsecond.FromLos Angeles Times If she gets the answer "lickety-split," as her dad says, she can check it off.FromNPR The class is nonstop, movinglickety-splitfrom jumping jacks to cross-over steps, squats, mountain climbers and other familiar exercises.FromLos Angeles Times Men in shaggy trousers on horses threw ropes about each other and picked up handkerchiefs from the ground while their horses were runninglickety-split.FromProject Gutenberg And away he goes at the head of the string,lickety-splitfor the beach.FromProject Gutenberg And, as if that weren't enough, his daddy is standing up on a horse and the horse is going round the ringlickety-split.FromProject Gutenberg Well, he got her out and startedlickety-splitup the main line, running wild and without orders.FromProject Gutenberg He drives helter-skelter,lickety-split, and never takes care of his car at all.FromProject Gutenberg She thought her last-day was come, with the fences streaking past herlickety-split.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/lickety-split## |